Another Name for the Constitution

the Preamble

the Introduction to the Constitution

"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Senatorial Courtesy

Articles of Confederation

Plan of government adopted by the Continental Congress after the American Revolution; established "a firm league of friendship" among the States, but allowed few important powers to the central government. Very week, it failed because it didn't create a federal government and had no judicial branch